Water Online Highlights

1. Water Quotes From Famous People 1/15/2021

   In my last post, Water Quotes from Movies and Films, and during our Water We Talking About? podcast with Paul O’Callaghan, I give a big thanks to actor Matt Damon for his efforts around water. In the hopeful documentary Brave Blue World, Matt expresses my sentiments and those of many of my fellow water professionals… "How lucky are we that we are the ones who get to solve this?"

2. City Of Durham, NC Improves Water Quality With 3-In-1 Hydro-Guard® Remote Pressure Monitoring, Sampling And Flushing Stations 1/15/2021

   The City of Durham is committed to providing safe drinking water to a service population of more than 289,000.  The City’s Department of Water Management (DWM) ensures the delivery of water to approximately 99,000 service connections through 1,400 miles of watermains. Lake Michie and Little River Reservoir are the two sources that deliver raw water to the City’s two treatment plants, using a combination of gravity flow and electric and hydro-powered pumping systems. Together, these plants have the combined treatment capacity of 64 million gallons per day (MGD) with an average demand is 28 MGD.

3. Urine Recycling Gets Another Look 1/15/2021

   There’s been debate about the safety of using biosolids as a fertilizer, but the scientific community is now pushing forward with research into whether urine can be used for the same purpose. That’s according to a new University of Michigan-led study that says diverting urine away from municipal wastewater treatment plants for recycling into crop fertilizer would result in multiple environmental benefits when used on a large scale.

4. Water Quotes From Movies And Films 1/13/2021

   My favorite book of 2020 was about one of my favorite movies of all time, water or otherwise, Chinatown. In his book The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood, author Sam Wasson gives the perspectives of screenwriter Robert Towne, producer Robert Evans, director Roman Polanski, and lead actor Jack Nicholson in the making of the 1974 film. The movie was inspired by the California Water Wars, a series of disputes over southern California water at the beginning of the 20th century, by which Los Angeles interests secured water rights in the Owens Valley.

5. Scratching Their Own Itches: How A Bunch Of Wastewater Treatment Engineers Came Up With A Revolutionary Take On Preliminary Design 1/13/2021

   Ari Raivetz is Chairman and CEO of Transcend, an incredibly innovative company that provides software to automate any vertical asset's preliminary engineering.

6. Sustainability In Times Of Stress — A 'Bottom Line' Endeavor 1/13/2021

   What's your company’s “bottom line?” If “sustainable water management” is your first answer, you probably work in municipal water.

7. How Acoustic Water Leak Detection Is Used To Tackle Water Loss 1/13/2021

   Italy’s biggest multi-utility, A2A S.p.A., like many water utilities in North America and around the world, had to corral water loss to sustain efficient operations. A2A piloted acoustic leak detection as a potential solution, achieving A+ results.

8. Co-Digesting Food Waste With Wastewater Solids To Produce Energy 1/13/2021

   Inspired in part by California’s Senate Bill 1383, which was enacted to reduce organic waste and methane emissions, co-digestion is fulfilling those goals while converting wastewater treatment plants into water resource recovery facilities.

9. Greener Pastures Ahead For Pumps 1/13/2021

   Energy-saving pumps will be ever more present in 2021 as investment in eco-friendly infrastructure continues to grow.

10. Statistical Modeling In Support Of Lead Service Line Identification, Inventory, And Replacement 1/13/2021

    One of the most high-profile, pressing, and complicated infrastructure problems gets chopped down to size with the help of data-driven analysis.